A Pakistani security personell examines bullets displayed at a security compound in Quetta late March 8, 2013. PHOTO: AFP
The seized weapons included machine guns‚ sniper rifles‚ rocket propelled grenades‚ detonators and explosive material. The collection was displayed at a security compound in the city of Quetta on March 8.
Violence in Balochistan has escalated with recent terror attacks targeting the Hazara community residing in the province. A bomb at a market in Hazara Town, a Shia neighbourhood in the suburbs of Quetta, killed 89 people. The Supreme Court announced to take suo motu notice of the killings of the Hazara community.
There are reports of missing persons from the region as well, with numbers going as high as 23,000 persons according to Nasrullah Baloch, the chairperson of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons.
A Balochistan MPA was also kidnapped earlier in the week from Kuchlack, just outside of Quetta. A group of armed men dressed in Frontier Corps uniform kidnapped Balochistan Assembly member and leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) Malik Sultan Tareen in the Bostan area of Pishin district on Tuesday.
Violence continued to plague Balochistan on Wednesday when four people were killed and one was injured in separate incidents across the province, while a bomb also exploded in Chaman district.
The chief justice has taken the on-going violence into notice and security forces conduct raids to find miscreants and their supplies.
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GB shaw had said Statistics are like swim suits. They display lots but conceal the most important parts. Similarly if they say 23k are missing , we know that its not the truth. The real figures are quite high.
@Jameel And what do you think those 23000 would be allowed for a peaceful protest ? Leading fellows would be threatened to step back. Those who denied would be abdicted but still if few of those succeeded to organize a procession, their bullet riden bodies would be found in a deserted area.
Where are the 23,000 families representative of those Baluchis? (or even 10,000 families if one family had multiple "missings".
23,000 missing balochis! Wow, if you can gather only 23,000 live balochis in the name of these missing balochis, i am ready to accept the figure!